A former employee for Kohler Co. says in a new federal lawsuit he was routinely harassed by co-workers who called him racial slurs on the job based on his Hmong heritage.
James Yang worked for the Sheboygan County-based plumbing manufacturing giant for two years as a material handler.
According to a Feb. 23 complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee, Yang’s co-workers, including two of his supervisors, often hurled the slurs at him and Yang eventually left the job when his complaints about it weren’t addressed to his satisfaction…